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 THE
SOUNDLESS
SOUND
By
THE TEACHER
of

Trancrib"d by
HARRIET AUGUSTA CURTISS
and
F. HOMER CURTISS, 13.S., M.D.
Se.cretarij of th» Order

THE CURTISS BOOK COMPANY

PUBLISHERS.LOS ANGELES.191 1

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F. HOMER CURTISS, M.D.

1911

PR!SS O BROWNE & CARTWRIGHT

HIGHLAND PARK LOS ANGELES

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Dedication
HE VOICE
has spoken.
To those
who can
hear and
in whose
hearts an echo of the
Soundless Sound has
thrilled, this little book-
let is dedicated.

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 "Out of the silence that is
peace a resonant voice
shall arise. . . Lien to
the song of life. Store in
your memory the melody
you hear. Learn from it
the lesson of harmony."
Light on. the Path, ii.

"God thundereth marvel-

ously with His voice; great
things doeth He, which we
cannot comprehend."
Job æxxvii:5.

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 Foreword

HIS little book comes to

you, dear reader, as a mes-
senger winged with the
love of the Mater Who
would gather His children
from the four winds.
til To all who are yearning for love
and underIanding, who are weary
of waiting for the eventide when the
Mater shall walk in His garden in
the cool of the day to meet His dis-
ciples, this little booklet is sent.
Ç1 It comes as a cooling breeze at twi-
light after the heat and toil of the day.
It comes as the song of birds piping

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their good night to the toil-worn. It
comes as a messenger of Peace, speak-
ing to such hearts as can hear, bring-
ing to them the assurance that in the
midt of the toil tnd disappointments
and weariness of life there is a surg-
ing undercurrent of Power and Peace
sweeping all humanity onward and
upward, drawing them closer to the
Heart of Love.
This little book is but a tiny nil
from the Fountain of Life. If it but
fill with cooling drops the cup of one
weary wanderer fainting in the Desert
of Life, it has fulfilled its mission.
Ç It is caÌ upon the Waters of Life in
Love, Compassion, and Trut, know-
ing that it will accomplish that for
which it is sent forth.

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The Soundless Sound

YE seekers for the Way!

Ye whose ears are yet
deaf to the Soundless
$ Sound!
i1 To you comes a mes-
sage from all the spheres through
which the Spirit of Life Eternal
presses onward, pulsating, rising, fall-
ing, beating the outward form into
nothingness that the immortal Spirit
of all things may be revealed to you,
the Soundless Sound.
iJ Why hear ye not?
4J Ye are so eagerly litening to the
sounds that are without, to the babe!

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of outer happenings, to the babel of

your thoughts.
ci Man's thoughts are the world's
babel in miniature.
Çi That which should be a deep flow-
ing river of consciousness is but the
babble of a shallow brook. Ye are
wont to babble mentally, to hold
mental conversations about the triv-
ial occurrences that have impinged
upon your consciousness from the
outer manifetations of life. As the
conStant drip of water wears away
the solid rock, so this waSted force
exhauSts the brain and Stultifies the
spiritual consciousness as would con-
tinued chatter of trifling things.
ci Alas, how oft these mental conver-
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sations are of matters unmentiona-

ble in outward speech!

NOW ye not that aimless

mental aélivity forms a
shell about you shutting
you away from the Voice
of God which should
speak in your heart?
q The first lesson for ye who seek to
consciously enter The Path is to con-
trol the currents of your thoughts.'
q Until the mind is controlled and
entertains only that which you de-
sire you till live in the world of
sensation, 1till seek the True within
the false, the living among the dead.
J Know ye not that all outward seem-
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ing, aitho but an illusion born of the

senses, is nevertheless a covering or I
veil that hides the True? a dark-lan-
tern within which the Shekina glows?

00K throughout Nature.

You find not one perfeft
or complete creation. Not
one blossom is without
defeët, one tree without
its dropping leaves and dying
branches, its gnarled and crooked
trunk or other imperfedions. Not
one blade of grass but has some flaw,
is eaten by some insed or dies for
want of moiture.
Ç Nothing in all Nature is perfedt.
ÇJ Yet Ìand upon the mountain-top
and view the scene outspread before
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you. The landscape has many minor

defeds if examined closely. Not one
form is perf&ft or complete, yet as a
whole they present a pidture that is
grand, inspiring. How your heart
thrills with joy unspeakable!
Ç "How wondrous! Behold the
handiwork of God."
ÇJ You know the thorns are there, yet
the rose breathes love and joy.
J What in this imperfecÌ world of
Nature speaks so ditindly, so per-
sitently to your heart? It is
THE SOUNDLESS SOUND
that Divine Power which lies veiled
behind all the imperfedtions.

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00K into the hearts of

men, into the hearts of
your chosen companions.
There again you will find I
many, many defets.
' Who has found a perfedÌ human
being?
i Who has found one personality in
whom all ideals are fulfilled? No
more than you have found one leaf
without blemish in all Nature.
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ity and feel the same warm thrill of
love ye feel for imperfed Nature?
Why criticize and condemn your fel-
lowman more than the herbs of the
field?
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J Through man's free will he has

created and is responsible for all Na-
ture's imperfedtions. A Divine Ideal
defleëted by the prism of man's mis-
conception. A literal working out of
the prophesy: "Cursed is the ground
for thy sake; thorns also and thiÌles
shall it bring forth to thee."2
Ç It is this law, aitho unrecognized,
which makes you condemn your fel-
lowman, overlooking your own
share in creating these conditions.
q You listen not to the silent Voice
of God, the Voice of the Silence, hence
do not recognize your own creations.
You close your ears to the Soundless
Sound that is speaking through all
Nature, and within the hearts of all
your fellow pilgrims; that is singing
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within the hearts of your friends, yea,
and your enemies also.
Just as the ineffable charm of a land-
scape appeals to you in spite of its
defeIs, so should you recognize the
Soundless Sound speaking through
you in no uncertain language, even
though imperfedtions be apparent.
'1 Meditate upon this thought in your
dealings with your fellowmen.
Many, with all their hearts, believe
there is a Divine Power manifesting
through humanity, yet, alas, how few
there be who seek or recognize it!
ANY believe that by much
experience, much prayer,
arduous truggle and pa-
tient endurance, one day
they may hear the Voice
speak to their hearts, pointing out
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their next tep in evolution; perhaps

speaking in admonition; perhaps say-
ing: "Well done, good and faithful
servant, enter thou into the joy of
thy Lord."
Ç How few realize that the voice of
humanity is in reality the Voice of
God, but in quite a different sense
from the usual interpretation of "Vox
populi, vox Deus!"
Through every heart, in spite of its
defects and failings, back of the per-
sonality which may be obnoxious, be-
neath and beyond is the Voice of God
speaking. And this Voice is the one
Voice in all, making humanity one.
1 "Call it by what name you will, it
is a voice that speaks where there is
none to speakit is a messenger that
comes, a messenger without form or
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subtance; or it is the flower of the

soul that has opened."
J It speaks to you from the lips of the
prattling babe, from the eyes of the
weary toiler or from the mouth of the
reckless, the profligate or the fallen
sitter. Back of every manifetation
of life on this plane of being stands
Divinity.
J Until you have learned this lesson
you cannot pass on.
Ç Until you recognize Divinity speak-
ing to you from every other atom of
humanity;
Until you have ceased to seek out
your brother's mitakes; until you
have ceased to look for his short-
comings and failings; ceased to meas-
ure his corn by your bushel of human
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frailty and have found how to use

God's measure inÌead;
Ç Until you have ceased to liIen to
the many voices of the world and be-
gun to liÌen to the one Divine Voice
manifeting through all humanity as
through Nature, you will never hear
the Silent Voice within.
MID the roffing fields and
wooded hills, while lis-
tening to the symphony of
Nature soundsthe song
of bird, the drone of in.
sed, the rustle of leafy bough, the tin-
kle of brook or boom of seayou are
uplifted and lirred by a sense of The
Divine surrounding you and coming
close. You have caught a glimpse of
Divine Consciousness. Your Soul
responds to the Soundless Sound.
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!J When your Soul thrills with the

same oneness as you contacft your fel-
lowmen you will then have ceased,
at leat in a measure, to liI:en to the
many and hearken to the One.
Ç Then are you ready to come into
Truth; to find Truth and undertand
that it is the foundation of all things;
that underneath and within the inner-
mot sanduary of all manifestations
of life is Divine Love.
]I Then will you know that this is not
a world of confusion, of trange and
myÌerious happenings, but a world
of Law and Love, a world of mani-
fold expressions of Deity. Then and
then only are you ready to liIen to
the Voice which speaks to you in the
Silence, the Soundless Sound.
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Then will you realize that you need

not desert the haunts of men, live in
the wilderness, mortify the flesh, live
on roots and herbs, quench your
thirt at the mountain Ireamlet. Your
opportunity will confront you
wherever you are placed. You will
find great joy miniftering to each
atom of humanity you meet. You
will have found the One in all. Then
will the Voice become the daily
Friend, the everlaling Counselor,
the Prince of Peace, the God of Love
within your heart.
0 HEAR this Voice no
or occult powers
Ppsychic
are needed, aitho in time
it will manifet in a def-
inite way on the psychic
and mental planes.
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ij This Voice you so eagerly desire
must firSt be heard and recognized in
all things ere it can be condensed and
manifeSt consciously in your heart,
for
J1 This animating principle of Divin-
ity speaks to you in no uncertain
tones on every plane of Being. Make
it pradtical.
J You muÌ dwell with God ere you
can think God's thoughts or respond
to the vibrations of His Soundless
Voice.
1 The physical is the loweSt plane of
manifeStation. If you are deaf to the
Voice upon the physical plane and
think to hear it upon the psychic or
mental planes it may seem to fail you
altogether.
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ÇJ Or you will find yourself litening

to atral voices which are ever ready
to fulfill that which you desire. But
such voices ultimately lead aÌray,
even though expressing lofty senti-
ments at firt and giving apparent
good counsel.
NOW ye not the condi-
tions of life in which you
find yourself are those
bet fitted for your Soul-
growth?
ci Be true 0 Soul and dare to tand in
the inner sanduary of your heart and
face yourself. Know that you, too,
sometimes vibrate falsely, yet within
are true.
I Recognize this and at once you
will recognize the true within each
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Soul, even those who, because of vi-

brations not in harmony with Truth
as revealed to you, are neither pleas-
ing nor helpful.
Ç Learn to pass such Souls by, but
without condemnation, learning your
lesson.
Çj If they express what is opposite to
Truth as seen by you, learn to express
more Truth because of their example.
From them learn to sendforth
tronger vibrations of Truth. Only
thus can you help them, never by
condemnation.
Let each Soul vibrate to its own
center, as you vibrate to yours. In
the Grand Man, as in the human body,
there are many centers. Perfect har-
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its own center while all respond to the

One Life.
l Then shall you know the Psalm of
Life. Then shall the sacred joy, the
great peace that comes to those who
live with Truth, enter into you.
NHARMONY is self-pro-
I duced by your unwilling-
ness to let each live his
own life. Learn well this
lesson.
Ç Then shall the Soundless Sound,
which echoes in each heart and makes
all the world akin, sing to you of
gladness. And it will say that only
as you forget self, let the little personal
self be swallowed up in the Great
Self,' can you become a conscious
note in the great symphony.
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IJ Only when you find your greatet

joy in bringing happiness to others,
not seeking how to be happy, how to
be loved, or how beI to live close to
the Divine for yourself alone, only
then can real abiding happiness and
close companionship of the Voice be
yours.
4J Then will you find that the sorrow
and misery of life which so oppressed
you has been swallowed up in a com-
prehension of the great Plan of Re-
demption. Give thanks for every Ìep
that has brought you to the realization
that you are a conscious fador in this
great work. Because of this Voice you
have learned to know and love, you
can enter the hearts of others,
can enter into the joy of the One Life.
It is not your brother or siÌer who
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brings this joy to you, but the One

Voice in the Soul of all.
EED let having rached
If this tep you go aÌray;
let in the zeal of self-
sacrifice you seek to bear
..
all burdens that others
may go free.
1 Be jut fir to yourself that you
may be jut to others.
Ji Know well the burdens of all Souls
are sent in Love. Deprive them not
of the trength they bring, let, alas,
for lack of the burden you would bear
they should lose the prize.
1 Discriminate between jutice and
selfishness.
q Say not in presumptious pride that
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you will bear all suffering. Say rather

you will uplift the world by being
better and happier yourself.
ISERY, like happiness, is
contagious. To be miser-
able is but to increase the
misery of the world. The
Psalm of Life which you
seek to bear is not a wail of misery,
but a pæan of joy.
Ç Through thoughtless seLfishness
perchance you bring sorrow to an-
other and go your way, sharing it
not. But you cannot bring one joy,
even to the leaÌ of your brethren,
that your own Soul is not filled with
the same joy, yea, a greater joy, for
the joy you feel is the joy of the One
Life surging through the universe. By
your own effort you have opened a
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door and permitted it to flow through

you. You have sounded a note on
the great Harp of Life and its vibra-
tions will never cease. They shall
spread from sphere to sphere and open
to you the Melody of the Divine, the
Soundless Sound.
ci Therefore we are not all one in
sorrow, for sorrow is not im-
mortal and has no exilence in the
One Life. It belongs wholly to earth,
is one of the imperfedtions of separ-
ated exitence. It mut pass away.
Jut as every imperfedion in Nature
will be transmuted as the Divine is
defleëted less and less by man's im-
perfedt prism. "Sorrow may endure
for a night, but joy cometh in the
morning."

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ANY who have lot a dear

companion feel it a mel-
ancholy duty to shut their
hearts away from joy and
dwell in sorrow. This,
intead of pleasing the departed, keeps
them from the joy awaiting them.
The voice of The Chri is continu-
ally saying: "Rejoice in the Lord
aiway: and again I say, Rejoice."
If you would hear this Voice in the
conditions of earth, trive to awaken
it by deeds of loving-kindness. Ju1
the natural little kindnesses that bring
joy into life. Also watch that your
features take not on a doleful ex-
pression, or of superiority, pride and
condescension.
'1 A joyful countenance will brighten
the day for many a weary Soul.
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Should sorrow or misfortune over-

take you turn your mind to the joy
of the One Life, away from the petty
worries that are barriers to its mani-
fetation.
HEN, little by little, you
have learned to hear the
Soundless Sound in the
hearts of all creatures in
the physical world, then
will it begin to manifeI in your men-
tal world. It will take form in your
heart, will cheer and comfort you.
iJ When you have litened to and
obeyed the God within, the Higher
Self who is one with all will make
his own Voice heard.

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' HE mind is the slayer of the

self, but the Voice is the
slayer of the mind. Only
Spiritual Sound can quiet
the voice of the mind
when it refledts the confusions of
earthly thoughts. Only The Chrit
walking upon the troubled waters of
your life can say: "Peace, be Iill."
I This is the Pentacotal Flame that
rets upon your head. As it mani-
fets all defedts are consumed. It
burns away the barriers of the flesh
that separate you from humanity, per-
mitting you to see the Divine in all.
II In the mental world the Flame
burns out the thought of personality,
that the Real Self may manifeÌ.
II In the spiritual world the Flame be-
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comes the All-Seeing Eye, the

Shekina, the Star of Inititiation, the
Light which shall guide you into that
peace which passeth underIanding.
1 You no longer think of this Divine
One Life. You live it. You become
it. You enter into the Silence and be-
come the Voice itself!

YE seekers who are one

with all that is! Know ye
not that the power is yours
to awaken Divine Har-
mony in life?
Into your hands is given the Harp
of Life, whose trings give forth the
seven creative notes. Strike the
Sirings aright! Its tones are all joy
and love and oneness.
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J Learn to play upon this Harp as you

would learn to play an inlrurnent of
earth. First learn to trike one note
true and clear, then chords, and
finally melodies and symphonies.
Your Divine Teacher is ever present.
1 If in your heart there comes a
shadow of gloom or sadness, turn
away and sound a note of joy in some
other heart and yours shall be filled!
q Look today out over the world and
sound a melody of joy and gladness!
q Strike the chords! LiIen to the
Soundless Sound that sweeps with
divine melody through your heart!

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ChriIian Myticism. The Order is not an
organization, requires no pledges or dues,
exalts no personality and imposes no
authority except that authority inherent in
Truth.
Monthly lessons are sent to each pupil.
q For further information address

F. HOMER CURTISS, M. D.
123 McCadden Place
Los Angeles, Cal., U. S. A.

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